Read the final installation of Brian Heater's interview with Dupuy and Berberi...
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Jason Lutes has a blog!
Yup, it's here... where you can delight in the Berlin cartoonist's secrets such as, "Who has time to draw the Reichstag from scratch? My life is half over alread...
Coming soon!
You know when you're at a comic convention, and there's just so much awesome new stuff you need (like, from the D+Q table, for example), and then with your arms full of books you ask the friendly booth worker if, by chance, they might have a bag to put all that in? And then they look at you, sort of apologetically, but also sort of with this plastic-bags-are-bad-for-the-...
A D+Q Links Sampler
And now for your reading pleasure, I present a small smorgasbord of links:Steve Mumford, artist of Baghdad Journal has a new story up on artnet.Michel Rabagliati is interviewed about Paul Goes Fishing on Planet of the Books, and Comic Book Bin compares him to the venerable Charles Schulz......while Thick Magazine compares Tom Horacek to Gary Larson for his new Petit Livre, All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood. Julie Doucet is featured with her recent book 365 Days in this week's NOW weekly from Toronto.Guy Delisle's Shenzhen is reviewed on boingboing......
Paul and Jim reviews on Newsarama
...Michel Rabagliati's Paul Goes Fishing and Raymond Briggs's Gentleman Jim, that is.Newsarama's Michael C. Lorah compares Rabagliati to Harvey Pekar and Alison Bechdel, in his talent for autobiography: "Autobiographical material is a tough genre to work in... Michel Rabagliati's Paul Goes Fishing is, to my surprise and enjoyment, another case of a...
Conventions, Conventions, Conventions
(Bob the Angry Flower, fixture of the convention circuit)Convention season starts (for D+Q, at least) in a little less than a month, with the Philly Book Festival in Philadelphia, PA. Here's a schedule of conventions that we have coming up, so you can come support us in your town!Take note of the new conventions and festivals that we'll be doing this...
8 Years of Comicon-Attending
And all I scored was 80%! If Jocelyn Wildenstein showed up to the D+Q booth at MoCCA, I would be estatic! Art Fairs vrs Comic Con!...
Joe Matt at the LA Times Festival of Books, April 27th
Looking for the perfect after church activity this Sunday (April 27th)? Why not pack up the kids and swing on down to the LA Times Festival of Books and watch a panel discussion with... Joe Matt? All right, forget the kids and maybe don't tell anyone at church, but be sure not to miss the 3:00 pm Graphic Novels: Every Picture Tells a Story panel. It...
Gary Panter on Inkstuds radio
I wouldn't expect less than this 3-part epic interview, when Gary Panter's in the spotligh...
Calvin invites new authors for FFW event
This past weekend, April 17-19, Kevin Huizenga was featured at the 2008 Festival of Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, headlined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon, Man Booker Prize-winning Yann Martel, and multiple Newbery Award-winning Katherine Paterson."Kevin Huizenga, a graphic novelist, graduated from Calvin with an art degree...
Pomme Pomme craft fair in Montreal
Drawn & Quarterly and Atelier WoodenApples are proud to present the first ever Pomme-Pomme Craft & Zine Fair!July 12th & 13th at La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent, Montreal QC, Canada.We're accepting submissions until May 15th!For more details, visit www.pommepommefair.blogspot.c...
Dupuy and Berberian
In case you missed it, the Daily Crosshatch's Brian Heater has a 3 part interview with Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy that went up recently. In it, the artists go into depth about their collaboration, influences and their relationship to their renowned Monsieur Jean character. They discuss the French book world, where apparently many writers...
Nick Mag's 3-D Comic Carousel, Sunday, April 20th
The comics-lovin' Nick Magazine has done it again! Check out D+Q's R. Sikoryak this Sunday at New York Comic Con.Sunday, April 203 PM - 4 PMAt the New York Comic ConJacob K. Javits Center (655 West 34th Street)Location: Kids Room 1E09A series of cartoon slide shows of comics from Nickelodeon Magazine, presented by an array of artists and other characters.Plenty...
With all the great graphic novels being published these days it's hard to believe that as recently as 1980 (Ok, seems recent to me!) comics were on the verge of oblivion. Oh, I remember it well: "Epic Illustrated" (don't ask) was considered cutting edge comics in those days. And there were all sorts of embarrassing start-up companies and comic titles...
One of my favorite pieces from the comics issue of McSweeney's from a couple of years back was "Two Questions" by Lynda Barry. It's one of the best explorations of the roots of creativity I can think of. Within only a handful of pages Barry deftly examines the self-doubt that often hinders or even cripples the creative process for so many people. This...
You don't come across good collections of "gag" cartoons very often these days. In fact, I can't remember if any good gag cartoon books have been published in my adult lifetime. Well, Drawn & Quarterly published this one just a couple of weeks ago, written and drawn by Tom Horacek. Gag cartoon collections are actually not part of what D+Q publishes,...
Vanity Fair
Madonna...pfft! Vanity Fair is looking forward to What It is! So says Elissa Schappell of the Hot Type column: "The collages in legendary cartoonist Lynda Barry's What It Is (Drawn & Quarterly) are a bathysphere-like odyssey through the depths of her funky subconscious."Advance copies are in, and it is awesome. Unlike anything you have ever read....
An Adrian Comic Not For Sale
Had I known that Adrian was xeroxing, collating, folding and stapling while getting ready for a wedding and the launch of Shortcomings, I may have gone easier on h...
Free comic books for everyone!
That's right, the happiest day of the year is less than a month away! On May 3rd, be sure to swing on by your local comic shop to pick through a cornucopia of free comic books.Remember to take a copy of D+Q's contribution to this horn o' plenty, Gekiga!, a sampler of upcoming manga. Included within it are excerpts from Seiichi Hayashi's Red Colored...
Raymond Briggs' studio
The Guardian (UK) website features a bunch of writers rooms, including Raymond Briggs, cartoonist of the upcoming D+Q book Gentleman Jim. Originally published in 1980, it is thought to be one of the first English-language graphic novels. His mention of "The S*****n," if you couldn't guess, is the beloved Briggs classic, The Snowm...
